The Grenada gazette. (Grenada, Miss.) 1885-18??, 1887-07-30
THE STATE OF MISSISSIPPI.

pl: The people, the whole body of
the people, What is the condition of
those people in aspect to the laws?
1t is that Of respect and obedience.
Ihey make the laws and thew obey
them. What relation, then, does the
Jackson penitentiary ring benz to the
whole body of the people Of the State
Merely that of numbers. They are,
| perhaps, Il dozen or so out of twelve
hundred thousand. What right. then.
nave they to assume that they are in
any sense representing the people
ard are to be considered and referred
to as the people of the State Of Miss
issippi. None whatever. The people
of the State utterly repudiate them
They stand singular and alone, their
chief loaded with murder and cover
ef with the intamy Of inhumanly aud
brulally and cruelty treating the con-
victs he leases SO that the flesh is cut
from their bodies by whips and their
feet tester and rot, the result of eX-
posure to the frost Having no right
to represent Mississippi. or to assume
that they are the State, why do they
continue to insist that the Appeal
has and is still assailiug the Ststen
1t is that they may escape the ven
geance of the people by putting the
state in their place. Can they thus
escape? No. Are you sure? Quite
sure. OF the eighty -four papers pub
lished in Mississippi only twelve Of
them in the least sustain Hamilton
the murderer of Gambreil, the lessee
of the penitentiary the vice~president
of the Ship Island railroad and The
boss of the ring. Seventytwo Of the
of the journals out of the state con-
denim the brutal murder, the gross
atrocity of which is realized in the
smashing of the skull Of the dying
man, literally han,merng the life
out of him. Thes seventy-two papers
represent seven-eigbts OF the public
sentiment of Mississippi, which sus-
tains and is proud of the position the
Appeal has taken in exposing this
ring chat does not hesitate to murder
to carry out its purpose of bosslng
the political celiter Of the State, ter.
rorizinE most of It's inhabitants and
reducing the political aims of a great
prlilical party to the level of their
needs and purposes in gain and muir
der. True to the hopes that their
fathers had in view in founding q no.
bic commonwealth, the people Of
Mississippi are for peace, for free
press and for free speech. Those,
they know, are essential to elements
tn the maintenance of II free state,
and they condemn Hamilton and
his murderous gang for seeking to
muzzle free press by the murder Of
an editor. Hamilton may have his
partlsans, he may be feted and toast
ed, he may be the recipient of the
gentle attentions OF lovely but mis-
guided women, but he is a doomed
man. He may escape the galloWs
and thus cheat Justice of its due, but
he cannot reverse the unaninity OF
of public sentiment which condemns
him and his aids and abettors. me
people Of Mississippi have pat the
mark of Cain upon him, and he can
not escape. But the people so fur
ther; they have tiarNeu Tie men VINO
have been his plant ana supple tools
in office, and have determined TO he
done with them forever, Murderer-
are to be punished, and murder made
odious, and the officials who have
lent themselves to the perpetuation
of a nelarious ring, In ignorance or
with knowledge, will never again be
trusted, will never again he officers
or representatives of the state. No
ring has ever in the United States
perpetuated itself beyond the day OF
its exposure. The great body OF the
people are honest and are pursuing
honest ways, and they will not toler-
ate dishonest public servants u mo-
ment after that dsh0nestY is made
plain. the days Of The Hamilton
gang are numbered. Their strength
went out in the murder Of iiamhre'',
They cannot survive or r'"uperat"'
Hereafter it will be politlcAl suicide
for any man to be identified with
tha. ring or any of the political pup
nets whom it managed and manipU-